This game was easily my favorite game of 2016. Hitman is essentially a murder sandbox. You choose between a handful of areas with set assassination targets and are completely left to your own creativity as to how you go about killing the targets. Feel like sniping them from a mile away? Go for it. Want to knock them out with a fire extinguisher and drop them down a chimney? Sure thing. Feel like pretending to be someone’s psychiatrist and smothering them with a pillow after discussing parenting issues? You can do that too.

If you pick up this game and simply go through all the missions, complete the kills one time and stop then you have missed the point and the joy of this game. The real fun is replaying the missions over and over again completing the kills and challenges in different and interesting ways. The maps really are your playground. Go to town, have fun and get to murdering.